Citation

Tinnemans JG, Gerritsen SM. Intensive Care Med. 1980; 6(4): 211-213.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7419795

Abstract

A case is described of acute defibrination following blunt head injury in a patient with a Spitz-Holter drain. The cause of the disseminated intravascular coagulation is thought to be due to brain thromboplastins entering the systemic circulation through the Spitz-Holter drain, thus bypassing the blood-brain barrier.

Language: en